What tomatoes are you growing this year?

[BoomerD]

We got our tomatos in the ground late this year.

The recent 100+ weather caused a later bloom than usual as well, but they're covered in little yellow blooms of deliciousness.

Our cherry tomato plant has a few little green gems, but the heirloom yellow hasn't started fruiting, nor has our "Big Beef" beefsteak.

Green peppers have finally come out of the heat doldrums and are producing again, and the jalapeno has about 1/2 dozen green fireballs on the stems.

 

[Baked]

I just buy the beefsteak kind from Costco.

 

[spidey07]

Originally posted by: Baked
I just buy the beefsteak kind from Costco.

Any tomato you get in a store is devoid of taste. It isn't ripe, it isn't juicy, it's just wrong on every level.

 

[Chaotic42]

Originally posted by: spidey07

Originally posted by: Chaotic42
My tomatoes are red and for some reason when I came home today, they look like chunks were taken out of them. I didn't see any bugs, but it just looks like someone came and scooped out little bits with a tiny fork.

Any ideas?

Need pics, I'll help.

Sounds like deer, your best recourse is to kill the fawn with a shovel and dump the carcass in the garbage for pick up. Really depends on the bit marks, if you've got rabbits, you know what to do.

Heh, it was birds. I bought some mesh to go around my arbor, but it looks really shitty. I might try and get something better looking over the weekend.

 

[spidey07]

A lot of people use fine chicken mesh to keep out pests. I have plenty of birds but have never had a problem with them eating the fruit.

Just make sure you have an easy way to open it to pick fruit.